Matthew 18's parable of the ungrateful servant ends with the words, "“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.” Jesus is speaking of being thrown into a torturer's den if having been forgiven, we do not forgive. Don't we like to think of Jesus …
Category Archives: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Baby Trust
No devotional this week, either. Grandboy and his mom are visiting and memoir manuscript is being proofed after publisher's edit. I'm meditating on the trust of a four month old. As I imagine my "breathtakingly honest" (one of my first readers said) memoir parading in public, I'm trying to imitate my grandson's trust. Jesus, once …
A Strong Weakness
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power …